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quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging behind. Labor market policies should be aimed to encourage women …
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of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, as well as in other … Southern European countries, low labor market participation rates of married women are observed together with low birth rates … married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data from the Bank of Italy which have been …
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The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential …
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In recent years the increase in the divorce rate in many advanced countries and the predominance of female-headed families among the poor has generated much interest in the relationship between divorce and the welfare of mothers and children. In this paper I will review a small body of economic...
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Most econometric models of intrahousehold behavior assume that household decision-making is efficient, i.e., utility realizations lie on the Pareto frontier. In this paper we investigate this claim by adding a number of participation constraints to the household allocation problem. Short-run...
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Recent research reveals a negative impact of divorce on children's welfare as a consequence of the reduction in monetary and time contributions by the non-custodian parent. When the custody arrangement is sole custody, the variables that link the absent parent to the child are visitations and...
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from 14 European countries (ECHP). We augment the informational content with indicators of labor, housing and marriage …
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In this paper, we explore the impact of social policies and labour market characteristics on women's decisions … arrangements, family allowances, and labour market flexibility. Our empirical results show that a non-negligible portion of the … differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the …
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We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …
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We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future … pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women … then ran a randomized experiment to evaluate the effect of increased information regarding pensions on women's awareness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314850